Of all the photographers that have ever been in our "Erotica" section, or even considered in other erotic publications, Ralph Gibson's elegant black and white photographs are some of our all-time favorites. His use of shadows, light, blacked-out space, and overall positioning of the nude bodies is masterful. Here is a selection of some of our favorites.

Kind of a no-brainer to say that Ralph Gibson is a great photographer, and some of his black and whites from the 1960s and '70s are some of our favorites. We saw that he had a photo at auction at Christie's this Monday, and this one in particular, Untitled 1975, is quite striking.